The gawd-almighty merged DRM in Silent Hunter V thread

[karamazovnew]

Originally Posted by sea snake

im a us resident. will i need to be connected to the internet everytime i want to play? like some of the other players , i travel and play offline alot. thanks for the answer before given.

Yes, the instant the net connection cuts off, the game pauses and waits for your connection to come back on. Happy flyin....

EDIT: and not just SH5, all future Ubi products will probably have this "feature"

[ETR3(SS)]

Looks like they got rid of Carotio's discussion as well.

Originally Posted by karamazovnew

Yes, the instant the net connection cuts off, the game pauses and waits for your connection to come back on. Happy flyin....

EDIT: and not just SH5, all future Ubi products will probably have this "feature"

So you think this is an option UBI should be proud of ? Btw any ideas who owns ubisucks.com domain ?

[Elder-Pirate]

UBI is just trying to get rid of all the cyber thieves/pirates and I don't really blame them. But what I do blame them for is that they have turned into the biggest theft of all!

Originally Posted by Elder-Pirate

UBI is just trying to get rid of all the cyber thieves/pirates and I don't really blame them. But what I do blame them for is that they have turned into the biggest theft of all!

Just imagine, you're hunting the convoy and when you're about to shoot the first torpedo a window pops in and says: "Your session limit has been expired, please insert coin to continue" LOL!

[trenken]

Originally Posted by sea snake

im a us resident. will i need to be connected to the internet everytime i want to play? like some of the other players , i travel and play offline alot. thanks for the answer before given.

You have to be connected all the time. So yeah it would be an issue for you. But there are ways to make it work if you really need to. If you're using a laptop well you could always get those satellite cards, so you have access to the net all the time.

It's really the only downside of DRM. You need to log into the server to play. Everything else about it is good for the dev's and good for us. Dont listen to these people that have never played a game that uses it. Ive yet to have 1 bad experience on any games that I play that use DRM.

[simsurfer]

Originally Posted by trenken

Everything else about it is good for the dev's and good for us. Dont listen to these people ...

You are a funny guy, thanks for the laugh!

Its obvious you work for Ubi$oft or have a interest in it somehow.

[trenken]

Originally Posted by simsurfer

You are a funny guy, thanks for the laugh!

Its obvious you work for Ubi$oft or have a interest in it somehow.

No I dont, I dont care about them, but ive played a good handful of games that use DRM and it works just fine. Sure it kills the modding, but it also allows them to make expansions and charge for them, which is just fine by me. That means we may actually see some more sub sim games, instead of this very unpopular genre dying off.

Id rather get some more games than some mods to be honest. Im all for them making as much money as they can because that results in more games for us.

[tater]

"Sure it kills the modding"

LOL.

Neither SH3 nor SH4 were playable as anything but arcade games out of the box. So this in effect kills SH5 as a sub SIM in your own words.

That's the only problem... that's enough of a problem for me.

Originally Posted by trenken

No I dont, I dont care about them, but ive played a good handful of games that use DRM and it works just fine. Sure it kills the modding, but it also allows them to make expansions and charge for them, which is just fine by me. That means we may actually see some more sub sim games, instead of this very unpopular genre dying off.

Id rather get some more games than some mods to be honest. Im all for them making as much money as they can because that results in more games for us.

Sigh... No Comments... Leaving already ?

[trenken]

Originally Posted by tater

"Sure it kills the modding"

LOL.

Neither SH3 nor SH4 were playable as anything but arcade games out of the box. So this in effect kills SH5 as a sub SIM in your own words.

That's the only problem... that's enough of a problem for me.

No, it allows them to create their own expansions and actually try to turn a decent profit on this franchise. When they can make more money, thats good for us too you know. Thats means we get more games.

None of us knows if this would have been the end of the road for SH, its certainly always possible in a genre like this. But if they can put a great expansion out, get a bunch of us to buy it, well that certainly helps raise the chances for SH6. Or if SH6 was going to happen either way, then it gives them some more $$ to dump into it. That works for me.

Thats how I look at things. I dont think about things in just the short term all the time, all negative about everything, hanging on to the past, only worried about myself. I actually want them to make as much money as possible, and ill give some of mine to them if I feel the expansions are good enough. Many people will regardless. You dont have to buy SH5 if you dont want.

[Thomen]

Originally Posted by trenken

No I dont, I dont care about them, but ive played a good handful of games that use DRM and it works just fine. Sure it kills the modding, but it also allows them to make expansions and charge for them, which is just fine by me. That means we may actually see some more sub sim games, instead of this very unpopular genre dying off.

Id rather get some more games than some mods to be honest. Im all for them making as much money as they can because that results in more games for us.

Wow.. you are really something.

Just to make it clear, you propose, an unstable, pretty pricey and relatively slow satellite connection as solution for the connection problems detailed in one of the posts above?

You keep mentioning that, you have played games that have a DRM like the one Ubi wants to use.. which are those exactly?

[MLF]

I think I will just wait until SH5 is released. I will then look at this site during the few times I am on line, see what peoples views are and then make a decision. I made 2 mistakes when I bought SH4 and then its add-on without first consulting the views of people here.

I do not see this is as just piracy protection but also as a marketing/statistic gathering exercise - I might be wrong, but usually when you have to connect to the Internet to activate something you are required to enter a whole lot of stuff about yourself - don't know, we'll see. It'll most likely be in the bargain basket after a year anyhow.

Meantime back to SH3

[ParaB]

Trenken, your reasoning is so naive that I'm beginning to wonder if you're some kind of viral marketing stunt.

[trenken]

Originally Posted by Thomen

Wow.. you are really something.

Just to make it clear, you propose, an unstable, pretty pricey and relatively slow satellite connection as solution for the connection problems detailed in one of the posts above?

You keep mention, that you have played games that have a DRM like the one Ubi wants to use.. which are those exactly?

Guild Wars, Spore, Fallout 3 (single player only by the way), just bought MAss Effect 2 (also single player only).

Works great in all of them. A slow satellite connection make no difference with a single player only DRM game, because game data from other player is not being streamed to you, its only for stat tracking, game updates and saves.